AuthorTopic: Say it isn't so (Read 3075 times)

There are some burdens in life that cannot be borne by one person alone. I ask you to just hear my sad, sad story. I now know the fate of the single VL box that I sold to a person who seemed interested in the grand Linux experiment. That noble P2 / 350 mhz with a DVD player required at least a couple days of painstaking configuration and tweaking to turn into the VL powerhouse that it is--or was. Yes, the inevitable happened. The customer bumped the memory up to 512 MB and installed Windows XP on this venerable machine. Imagine that: Win XP on a 350. Is that even possible?

It seems like people just want some MS OS even not thinking on what type of specs they put it on.It's a shame that some users are so ignorant to the fact that XP and any other MS OS will NOT run very well on those specs you guys just described.

Why not go with VL, it most certainly works on those specs.Now I make a promise, I will NOT upgrade my computer within the next year. I will keep on going strong with my P2 Celeron 466MHz 192MB of RAM with KDE 3.5.7 and of course, the distro is VL

There are some burdens in life that cannot be borne by one person alone. I ask you to just hear my sad, sad story. I now know the fate of the single VL box that I sold to a person who seemed interested in the grand Linux experiment. That noble P2 / 350 mhz with a DVD player required at least a couple days of painstaking configuration and tweaking to turn into the VL powerhouse that it is--or was. Yes, the inevitable happened. The customer bumped the memory up to 512 MB and installed Windows XP on this venerable machine. Imagine that: Win XP on a 350. Is that even possible?

Yeah, I had my computer reformatted once, and they surprisingly installed Win XP on my computer with those exact same specs. I was planning to install VL on it at the time. But, when I started it up, I was curious. Amazingly, it booted up fast. Faster than the normal box I use Win XP on, which was 2.8Ghz. It was even quite responsive. I didn't try doing anything much though. I just rebooted and installed VL.

It seems like people just want some MS OS even not thinking on what type of specs they put it on.

Hardware manufacturers too. I've just bought a cheap Acer laptop which has 512 MB of RAM and a 1.73 GHz Celeron processor. It came with Vista Home Basic preinstalled (uuugh!!) and using it was like wading through treacle. Not that it lasted long though - I've already wiped the hard disk and installed something much better (no prizes for guessing) but I still resent having paid the Microsoft tax for something I don't need and won't use.

Yes it is. A friend of mine used to run that, but with far less memory (Only 128 IIRC ). He made music with a tracker program on it, but it played rather choppily at times. A couple of months ago he got himself a new computer at a local discount store, with XP on it ( I recommended that to him, he has no use for Vista). I could have made him a linux + wine install, but since his computer will only be used for that tracker program and will not be connected to the web it should stay fine.

There are some burdens in life that cannot be borne by one person alone. I ask you to just hear my sad, sad story. I now know the fate of the single VL box that I sold to a person who seemed interested in the grand Linux experiment. That noble P2 / 350 mhz with a DVD player required at least a couple days of painstaking configuration and tweaking to turn into the VL powerhouse that it is--or was. Yes, the inevitable happened. The customer bumped the memory up to 512 MB and installed Windows XP on this venerable machine. Imagine that: Win XP on a 350. Is that even possible?